com.datastax.driver.core
Interface AuthProvider

All Known Implementing Classes:

PlainTextAuthProvider

public interface AuthProvider

Provides Authenticator instances for use when connecting to Cassandra nodes. See PlainTextAuthProvider for an implementation which uses SASL PLAIN mechanism to authenticate using username/password strings

Field Summary

static AuthProvider

NONE A provider that provides no authentication capability.

Method Summary

Authenticator

newAuthenticator(InetAddress host) The Authenticator to use when connecting to host

Field Detail

NONE

static final AuthProvider NONE

A provider that provides no authentication capability.

This is only useful as a placeholder when no authentication is to be used.

Method Detail

newAuthenticator

Authenticator newAuthenticator(InetAddress host)
                               throws AuthenticationException

The Authenticator to use when connecting to host

Parameters:

host - the Cassandra host to connect to.

Returns:

The authentication implementation to use.

Throws:

AuthenticationException